The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

The practice of Dharma is a constant battle within oneself.

The challenge in meditation is not to eliminate thinking but to understand the nature of thought itself.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

True happiness is not about getting rid of all our problems, but about changing our relationship to them.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

When you generate negativity, you are the first victim of your negativity.